You will write a document that presents your hypothetical rhetorical situation for your Analytical Report, proposes your project plan to your instructor and requests permission to proceed with the project as planned.

In order to present an acceptable situation, you will need to imagine a professional entity (management, company, program, client, etc.), and present a plausible explanation of a rhetorical situation requiring an analysis of a course of action, a choice between alternatives, etc. You will need to describe your report’s audience(s), and your purpose in analyzing the course of action and making a recommendation.

You will create your own situation. You may decide to choose an existing company that you can research or make up a completely fictional company. Either way, you will be analyzing real data that you research to support your conclusions, so your situation must allow you to find read data through research. You cannot create a situation in which all the numbers and facts are purely imaginary. For example, you cannot focus your report on the feasibility of purely imaginary product, such as a device that can instantly create any food. There is no way to research the data about how to create a product like that if it has never been done before.

For your project to be approved, your instructor will need to be convinced of:

1) the suitability of your project topic and rhetorical situation,

2) the availability and accessibility of the information required to investigate and present a recommendation, and

3) the feasibility of your plan for conducting the investigation and writing the report.